[866] “Sextus Pompeius Cordubam tenebat, quod ejus provinciæ caput esse existimabatur.” (Cæsar, The War in Spain, III.—Plutarch, Cæsar, 17.)
[867] Cicero, Second Prosecution of Verres, II. 13.—Paulus Diaconus, under the word Conventus.—Müller, p. 41.
[868] Cicero, Second Prosecution of Verres, II. 20, 24, 30; IV. 29.—Familiar Letters, XV. iv.
[869] Pliny, Natural History, III. i., and IV. xxxv. The three conventus of Lusitania were held at Emerita, Pax Julia (Béja), and at Scalabis: the four of Bætica were, Gades, Corduba, Astijo, Hispalis (Cadiz, Cordova, Ecija, and Seville).
[870] Dio Cassius, XLIV. 39, 41.
[871] “From the beginning of my questorship, I have shown a special affection for the province.” (Speech of Cæsar to the Spaniards, at Hispalis, Commentaries, The War in Spain, 43.)
[872] Plutarch, Cæsar, 5.
[873] Titus Livius, XXI. 21.—Florus, II. 17.
[874] Plutarch, Parallel between Alexander and Cæsar, 6.—Suetonius, Cæsar, 7.
[875] Suetonius, Cæsar, 8.